Little Women-小妇人

作者：Louisa May Alcott

书名：Little Women《小妇人》

中文简介：Little Women《小妇人》由美国作家露易莎·梅·奥尔科特所著，小说背景是19世纪美国新英格兰地区南北战争时期。小说通过描绘普通家庭中四个姐妹之间的生活琐事从而表现了人的自强自立，自尊自爱，团结友善，也从而宣扬了的女权意识。

英文简介：Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.
It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,” including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book” her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.